Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has urged the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to research a picture broadly shared on-line on Saturday that he stated possible confirmed a Ukrainian prisoner of battle being killed and dismembered by Russian forces.
Ukraine’s prosecutor common stated individually that an pressing investigation had been launched into data unfold on social media in regards to the killing and dismemberment of a Ukrainian prisoner of battle.
“{A photograph} has appeared on the Web, in all probability of a Ukrainian prisoner whose head and limbs had been minimize off by the Russians,” Dmytro Lubinets, the nation’s prime human rights official, stated in a publish on the messaging app Telegram.
“Within the face of those horrific photographs, I’ve urgently appealed to the ICRC and the UN to register yet one more human rights violation dedicated by the terrorist nation,” Lubinets wrote.
Prosecutor Normal Andriy Kostin introduced that an pressing investigation had been launched. “Russia continuously repeats the crimes of the Nazis and reveals absolute disregard for all of the norms of the civilized world,” he wrote on Telegram.
Russia denies torture or different types of ill-treatment of prisoners of battle.
A United Nations fee of inquiry into Ukraine stated in a report launched in March that it had documented credible allegations of executions of at the very least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of battle in 12 separate incidents between December 2023 and February, and that it had independently verified three of the incidents.
The three-member fee of inquiry stated it had additionally gathered additional proof that Russia had systematically tortured Ukrainian prisoners of battle, documenting threats of rape and using electrical shocks on the genitals.
He added that the size of such torture circumstances might quantity to probably the most severe abuses often called crimes in opposition to humanity, describing their incidence as “widespread and systematic.”
